What does elegant mean?

Definitions for elegant
ˈɛl ɪ gəntel·e·gant

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. elegantadjective

    refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

    "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

  2. elegant, graceful, refinedadjective

    suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

  3. elegantadjective

    displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

    "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

Wiktionary

  1. elegantadjective

    Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

  2. elegantadjective

    Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

    an elegant solution

  3. Etymology: From elegant, ultimately from elegans.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ELEGANTadjective

    Etymology: elegans, Latin.

    Trifles themselves are elegant in him. Alexander Pope.

    There may’st thou find some elegant retreat. London.

    Polite with candour, elegant with ease. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. elegant

    Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity. Elegance is frequently used as a standard of tastefulness, particularly in visual design, decorative arts, literature, science, and the aesthetics of mathematics. Elegant things often exhibit refined grace and suggest maturity, and in the case of mathematics, a deep mastery of the subject matter.

ChatGPT

  1. elegant

    Elegant refers to something that is graceful, stylish, and tastefully refined in appearance or behavior. It often connotes sophistication, high quality, and a lack of ostentation. This term can be used to describe a wide range of entities including clothing, language, ideas, designs, buildings, or even mathematical proofs, among other things.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Elegantadjective

    very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure

  2. Elegantadjective

    exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Elegant

    el′e-gant, adj. pleasing to good taste: graceful: neat: refined: nice: richly ornamental.—ns. El′egance, El′egancy, the state or quality of being elegant: the beauty of propriety: refinement: that which is elegant; Elegante (el-e-gangt′), a lady of fashion.—adv. El′egantly. [Fr.,—L. elegans, -antise, out, and root of legĕre, to choose.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. elegant

    [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than ‘clever’, ‘winning’, or even cuspy.The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince, was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'elegant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4769

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'elegant' in Adjectives Frequency: #660

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of elegant in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of elegant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of elegant in a Sentence

  1. Ari Seth Cohen:

    She's an incredibly elegant woman who lived in Buenos Aires, and so I flew down to photograph her and interview her for the book, i was so honored that at 93 she was following my work, this incredibly elegant woman.

  2. Robert Grass:

    We have found elegant ways of making DNA very stable, so we wanted to combine these two stories -- to get the high storage density of DNA and combine it with the archaeological aspects of DNA.

  3. Vieux Malala:

    We came to know the sape thanks to Papa Wemba. And believe me, even with his death, we are going to continue to be elegant.

  4. Tom Blair:

    Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

  5. Brian Solis:

    The product is elegant, the technology is disruptive, to say the least, is it enough to conquer the industry ? It remains to be seen. It’s closely guarded. If they can demonstrate momentum, then monetization becomes the least of their worries.

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